Here are tales of country newspaper life, political life, trials of would-be inventors, hardships of a book-agent, domestic fits and misfits, perils of a ship-wrecked man, and a hundred others, warranted to make even the most sedate laugh.

Full of illustrations just as funny as the text.
18mo.

Cloth.
Price, 75 cents.
STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_ "LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR." Toothsome Tales Told in Slang By BILLY BURGUNDY.
A book of fascinating stories about fascinating folks.
Pretty women before and behind the foot-lights, artists and their models, literary men of Bohemian tendencies, these are the people whom Billy Burgundy has selected for characterization.

True, they speak their lines in slang, but it is the slang of the educated, and is always artistic while delightfully amusing.
Pronounced by press and public one of the funniest books ever published.
The illustrations are by Outcault, Swinnerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley, Lemon, Cobb and Bryans.
Copiously Illustrated.
Price, 75 cents.
STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_ EERIE TALES OF "CHINATOWN." Bits of Broken China By WILLIAM E.S.

FALES A collection of captivating novelettes dealing with life in New York's "Chinatown." The struggles and ambitions of the Chinaman in America, his loves and jealousies, his hopes and fears, his sorrows, his joys, these are the materials on which Mr.Fales has built his book.
It is a _new field_, and all the more interesting on that account.